Friday, 8 June 2012

FRANK O'CONNOR SHORTLIST 2012

Kevin Barry is the only Irish nominee on the shortlist for the 2012
Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the world’s biggest
prize for a collection of stories. What a year he's having!

Congrats to all of the six-strong list which is nicely international with collections
from Americans Nathan Englander and Lucia Perillo, Israeli Etgar Keret,
New Zealander Fiona Kidman and British writer Sarah Hall. Nathan Englander
is effectively on the list twice as he translated Keret’s book; he and Keret will split the prize
money if the book wins. Perhaps they'll do a nice two-hander at the festival if that happens. That would be cool. Etgar K gave a good reading and interview the last time he was shortlisted for the award.

The winner of the award of €25,000, organised by the Munster
Literature Centre and funded by Cork City Council, will be announced on
July 5th and the prize will be presented at the Cork International Short
Story Festival in September. The judges are poet
James Harpur, Irish novelist Mary Leland and festival organiser Ann
Luttrell.

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Nuala Ní Chonchúir was born in Dublin, Ireland; she lives in East Galway. Her third novel, Miss Emily, published under the name Nuala O'Connor, is out now from Penguin USA, Penguin Canada and Sandstone Press (UK).

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